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Mapping Accessibility and Shortage of the Protestant Church in China: Applying Two Spatial Research Methods

Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies

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Title Mapping Accessibility and Shortage of the Protestant Church in China: Applying Two Spatial Research Methods
 
Creator Hong, Zhaohui
Yan, Jiamin
 
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Description The issues of church accessibility and church shortage are critical for understanding religious market and religious economy in China. Assisted by GIS, this article uses and compares two spatial research methods, the Two Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) and the Network Analysis Method (NAM), to examine the church accessibility and church shortage in the thirty-one provincial capital cities of China. Despite the two different methods, this article sets up a common criterion in determining the geographic area of church shortage, or rather determining the number of Protestants who cannot reach the nearest churches from their residential locations within 30 minutes through driving or public transportation. The research findings discovered by both methods have identified nine provincial capital cities in the three regions of China as the areas of church shortage and low church accessibility.
 
Publisher Asian Online Journal Publishing Group
 
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Date 2015-02-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJSSMS/article/view/252
 
Source Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies; Vol 2, No 1 (2015); 1-16
2313-7401
2518-0096
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJSSMS/article/view/252/pdf_14
http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJSSMS/article/view/252/773
 
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